Amnesia and learning

TL;DR: The authors compared errorful and errorless learning in the teaching of new information to neurologically impaired adults with severe memory problems and found that people with amnesia scored significantly higher under the errorless condition.

TL;DR: Using a dynamic lens model approach with plausible learning models, it is found that the learning process is indeed indistinguishable between an amnesic and control group, however, in contrast to earlier findings, this is inconsistent with a crucial prediction from the multiple-systems account.

TL;DR: The concept of brain systems, while not entirely free of problems itself, provides a more concrete and in the end a more satisfying basis for thinking about memory systems.

TL;DR: Declarative memory does appear to make a contribution to performance when training is extended beyond approximately 50 trials, because with further training control subjects eventually outperformed the amnesic patients.